Clinical Comparative Study of Intravitreal Injection of Triamcinolone Acetonide and Aflibercept in the Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Cystoid Macular Edema by Yanxia Zhu, Jun Li, Songping Yu, Bangxun Mao, Jia Ying

“…The clinical curative effect, visual acuity, central subfield macular thickness (CSMT), macular volume, scores of quality of life, and levels of cytokines in aqueous humor (vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), human angiopoietin-like protein 4 (ANGPTL4)] at different time points (before and at 6 months after surgery) were compared between the two groups. …”
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Pulse-by-pulse transient thermal deformation in crystal optics under high-repetition-rate FEL by Lin Zhang, Jerome Hastings, Zhirong Huang, Jingyi Tang, Diling Zhu

“…Pulse-by-pulse transient thermal deformation of a 50 µm-thick diamond crystal has been performed with X-ray pulse repetition rates between 50 kHz and 1 MHz. …”
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Assessment of salicylic acid and potassium nitrate to mitigate frost stress in autumn-sown potato crop cv. Sutlej by Muhammad Wasim Haider, Syed Mohsin Abbas, Tanveer Hussain, Muhammad Tahir Akram, Umar Farooq, Mona S. Alwahibi, Mohamed S. Elshikh, Zaid Shakeel, Muhammad Nafees, Muhammad Rizwan, Rashid Iqbal

“…This included increased plant height by 14% and 17.6%, leaf area index by 6.3% and 26.3%, shoot biomass by 15.4% and 46.2%, crop growth rate by 16.7% and 43.3%, average tuber weight by 8.2% and 23%, tuber diameter by 6.8% and 12.2%, tuber yield by 26.1% and 46.3%, leaf angle by 16.2% and 21.6%, quantum yield of photosystem II by 20.6% and 28.2%, photosynthetically active radiations by 20.5% and 32.4%, chlorophyll content by 6.3% and 14.6%, leaf thickness by 14% and 29%, linear electron flow by 20% and 32.7%, O–2 by 6% and 14.4%, H2O2 by 11.7% and 27.6%, enzyme activities of catalase by 20.7% and 28.5%, superoxide dismutase by 28.6% and 28.5%, peroxidase by 8.3% and 13.5%, ascorbate peroxidase by 17.2% and 37.8%, total protein by 21% and 37%, proline by 36.2% and 114%, and phenolic content by 33% and 63.3% with a reduction in non-photochemical quenching by 12.7% and 29.6%, non-regulatory energy dissipation by 169.5% and 268.5%, and leaf electrolyte leakage by 57.5% and 180%, compared to KNO3 and the control, respectively. …”
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Response to 1-Year Fixed-Regimen Bevacizumab Therapy in Treatment-Naïve DME Patients: Assessment by OCT Angiography by Magdalena Hunt, Sławomir Teper, Adam Wylęgała, Edward Wylęgała

“…The DME patients with a central macular thickness (CMT) of ≥300 μm received nine bevacizumab injections within 12 months. …”
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TRI INKUNABULE IZ SENJA U KNJIŽNICI FRANJEVAČKOG SAMOSTANA TRSAT (prilog povijesti franjevaca u Senju) by FILA BEKAVAC LOKMER, JURAJ LOKMER

“…Početkom XVI. stoljeća pred naletom turske sile grad se utvrđuje, ruše se svi objekti izvan gradskih zidina, a na brežuljku iznad grada gradi se utvrda za obranu grada i cijeloga Primorja i Istre od Turaka. …”
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The relationships of metals exposure and disturbance of the vaginal microbiota with the risk of PROM: Results from a birth cohort study by Dongyang Zhang, Rui Dong, Tingting Jiang, Shiwei Ren, Xinyu Yue, Muxin Zhai, Siyu Jiang, Bingxia He, Ran Tang, Yujie Deng, Wenjie Lyu, Baojing Zhao, Fangbiao Tao, Yuanyuan Yang, Zongzhi Yin, Zhen Yu, Dongmei Ji, Chunmei Liang

“…Based on a prospective birth cohort study including 668 pregnant women, maternal blood levels of 15 metals in the first trimester (n=668) and microbiota of vaginal secretions in the third trimester (n=244) were assessed. The metals that significantly associated with the risk of PROM were screened out via four statistical models, the top three were barium (Ba), chromium (Cr) and thallium (Tl) according to their weight indices. …”
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Core Outcome Set Development for Tension-Type Headache Treatment Using Traditional Chinese Medicine: Protocol for a Delphi Consensus Study by Guojing Fu, Yunmeng Chen, Xiao Liang, Chunli Guo, Xueming Fan, Xiao Gong, Wenjie Chen, Jing Teng, Jun Tang, Xing Liao, Jingjing Wei, Yunling Zhang

“…Statistical analysis will be used to assess the level of consensus and prioritize outcomes based on predefined criteria. Third, a face-to-face consensus meeting will be held to finalize the COS and recommend measurement times for each outcome. …”
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Pharmacy students’ opinion on mandatory summer internships carried out in community and hospital pharmacies by Lucyna Bułaś, Anna Gołda, Ewa Długosz, Artur Owczarek, Anna Zagaja, Mariola Drozd

“…The first two internships are held after the third and fourth year of study during the summer break and last for four weeks. …”
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Predictors and prognosis of elderly hip fracture patients with perioperative atrial fibrillation: a nested case–control study by Wei Li, Aoying Min, Wei Zhao, Weining Li, Shuhan Li, Saidi Ran, Mingming Fu, Qili Yu, Junkai Kou, Zhiqian Wang, Zhiyong Hou

“…Methods An examination of hip fracture patients at the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, who had been hospitalized from January 2018 to October 2020 in succession, was conducted retrospectively. …”
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Enhancing physical activity levels in 9–11-year-old children of varied genders: strategies leveraging parental exercise consciousness by Chao Song, Sha Ge

“…Second, we observed moderate to above-average level of parental exercise consciousness, and a significantly positive correlation between parental exercise consciousness and children’s PA levels (α = 0.601, p < 0.01); meanwhile, all four dimensions of parental exercise consciousness showed varying degrees of positive correlations with children’s PA intensity, duration, and frequency (p < 0.01). Third, stratified linear regression analysis showed the varied predictive associations of the different dimensions of parental exercise consciousness with children’s PA intensity, duration, and frequency. …”
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Social-ecological perspective on the suicidal behaviour factors of early adolescents in China: a network analysis by Xueying Zhang, Yuan Li, Juan Chen, Peiying Li, Mengyuan Yuan, Yonghan Li, Gengfu Wang, Puyu Su

“…Secondly, the common risk factors of suicidal ideation, plans and attempts were elucidated. Thirdly, this study proposed target interventions to address the unique influencing factors of suicidal ideation, plans and attempts.…”
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Risk factors associated with the failure of local methotrexate combined with minimally invasive surgery for late cesarean scar pregnancy by Xiao-Tong Cheng, Yan-Song Liu, Dan-Yang Song, Xiao-Cui Nie, Yu-Shi Xiang, Ju-Min Niu

“…Cesarean scar pregnancy was classified as type I, II, or III based on the direction of growth of the gestational sac and the residual myometrial thickness as assessed by ultrasound. Binary logistic regression analysis was utilized to identify the risk factors associated with the failure of the initial combined treatment. …”
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The Effect of Cognitive-Motor Dual Tasks on the Risk of Falls in Female Saudi Students: A Cross-Sectional Study by Alatawi SF, Mahmoud HM

“…In addition, the only time there was a significant difference between the two groups was when they performed DT (P = 0.006).Conclusion: Female students who used critical and analytical thinking and motor performance in their study and daily routine were more balanced and resistant to falling than their peers who did not. …”
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NEGATION, INCLUDING, GRADUAL OBLIVION: STATE STRATEGIES ON SOVIET HERITAGE IN GEORGIA, ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN by A. A. Tokarev

“…This conjunction of Soviet symbols (Armeniadid not carry out systematic decommunization) and political practices is oddly mixed with the image of GareginNzhdeh as “the father of nation”, a person who was accused in theUSSRfor collaborating with the Third Reich.Georgia tries to part with the Soviet Union to the maximum extent at a symbolic level, has made great progress in building formal democratic institutions, but in reality it is still managed through informal procedures, to which discursive and symbolic decommunization did not affect in principle. …”
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Pragmatic algorithm for visual assessment of 4-Repeat tauopathies in [18F]PI-2620 PET Scans by Theresa Bauer, Matthias Brendel, Mirlind Zaganjori, Alexander M. Bernhardt, Alexander Jäck, Sophia Stöcklein, Maximilian Scheifele, Johannes Levin, Thilo van Eimeren, Alexander Drzezga, Osama Sabri, Henryk Barthel, Robert Perneczky, Günter Höglinger, Nicolai Franzmeier, Johannes Gnörich

“…Two readers evaluated scans independently and blinded, with a third reader providing consensus in case of discrepant primary evaluation. …”
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Study on the Genetic Differences in Reservoir Characteristics Based on the Bidirectional Provenance of the Yanchang Formation in the Jiyuan Area, Ordos Basin, China by Qiang Tong, Zhaohui Xia, Jixin Huang, Junchang Wu, Yusheng Wang, Zheng Meng, Chaoqian Zhang

“…Although more dissolution improvements have been obtained, the damage to the reservoir caused by cementation in the middle and late stages is extremely fatal, while the chlorite film in the APA reservoir has a better protection effect on the primary intergranular pores. Third, after the evolution of pores in the APA reservoir, more intergranular pores are preserved, and the distribution range of high-quality diagenetic facies is wider than that in the YPA. …”
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Criminological principles of transitional justice for Ukraine: zones of criminogenic risks by Y. V. Orlov, L. V. Dundych

“…This dilemma is a typical manifestation of binary opposition, which makes it impossible to think and practice in the format of nonlinearity of the history, socio-temporal multidimensionality in a single chronotope of pre-conflict and conflict events. …”
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Tobacco Treatment Disparities Among California Medicaid Members With and Without Chronic Disease Who Smoke by Nan Wang, PhD, Melanie S. Dove, ScD, Cindy V. Valencia, PhD, Elisa K. Tong, MD

“…Results: Among 1,227,154 Medi-Cal members who smoke, over half (51.9%) of whom had at least 1 chronic disease, approximately half received cessation advice, and less than one third received smoking cessation assistance. Smokers with chronic disease were more likely to receive health professional advice (63.9% vs 33.7%, p<0.001) and assistance (37.7% vs 20.5%, p<0.001) than those without chronic disease. …”
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Mapping the landscape of Hospital at home (HaH) care: a validated taxonomy for HaH care model classification by Kerstin Denecke

“…This type could be chosen for generalizable care. The third cluster (20.6%, 7/34) includes complex interventions involving informal caregivers and advanced medical devices, requiring caregiver training, supportive policies, and user-friendly technology to reduce caregiver burden and improve safety. …”
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The Response of the Pulp-Dentine Complex, PDL, and Bone to Three Calcium Silicate-Based Cements: A Histological Study in an Animal Rat Model by Ranjdar Mahmood Talabani, Balkees Taha Garib, Reza Masaeli

“…After one month, all groups had healthy pulpal tissue, but 25% of ESRRM putty retained score 1 inflammatory response, and 50% of the BD case had an incomplete palisading odontoblast layer (score 3). A thick and regular dentine bridge deposition was seen in the ESRRM putty group in comparison with MM-MTA and BD cases. …”
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